ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,188, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ark Surgical Ltd. (Nazareth, Israel).
"Laparoscopic workspace device" was invented by Abraham J. Yaari (Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel) and Stav Tori (Moshav Neve Yarak, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workspace device comprising: (a) a workspace body having a workspace inner wall defining an internal volume, including one or more expandable segments, said workspace body is: collapsible to a collapsed state where said body fits through a laparoscopic passageway in an abdominal wall, which passageway extends to an abdominal cavity; and expandable, to increase said internal volume, to an expanded...